In Spanish law. Rela-tions. white, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5, I 2
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Lat in the civU law. A wall. Paries est, sive murus, sive maceria est. D.ig. 50, 16, 157
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Lat. By an equal prog-ress; equably;. ratably; without preference. Coote, Mortg. 56
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Lat For the like reason; by like mode of reasoning
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Lat of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws pari materia must be construed with reference to each other. Bac. Abr. “Statute,” I, 3
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In medical jurisprudence. Progressive general paralysis, involving or leading to the form of insanity known as “dementia paralytica” Popularly, but not very correctly, called “softening of the brain.” See Insanity
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Lat with equal right; upon an equal footing; equlvalent in rights or claims
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one work executed lu the intervals of another; a subordinate task. Particularly, the name of a work on the Canons, in great repute, by Ayliffe
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lat A person’s peers or equals; as the Jury for the trial of causes, who were originally the vassals or tenants of the lord, being the equals or peers of the parties litigant; and, ns the lord’s vas-sals Judged each other in the lord’s courts, so the sovereign’s vassals, or the lords them* selves, judged each otber in the sovereign’s courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 349
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The lawful father or the mother of a person. Appeal of Gibson, 154 Mass. 378, 28 N. E. 296. This word is dis-tinguished from “ancestors’’ in including only the immediate progenitors of the per-son, while the latter embraces his more remote relatives in the ascending line
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Part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and inclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not Injure the gramma tical construction of the reBt of the sentence, wharton; In re Schilling, 53 Fed. 81, 3 CL C. A. 440
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In old English law. Per-sons who carried about the pope’s indul
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Lat. In Roman law. A par-ent; originally and properly only the father or mother of the person spoken of; but also, by an extension of its meaning, any relative, male or female, in the line of direct ascent
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A park, (q. v.> A pound for stray cattle. Spelman
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An act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the Individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law lnfiicts for a crime he has com-mltted. U. S. v. wilson, 7 Pet. 160, 8 L. Ed. 640; Ex parte Garland, 4 wall. 380, 18 L. Ed. 366; Moore v. State, 43 N. J. Law, 241, 39 Am. Rep. 558; Rich v. Chamberlain, 104 Mich. 436, 62 N. W. 584, 2″ L. R. A. 573; Edwards v. Com., 78 Va. 39, 49 Am, Rep. 377
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Sheep-skins dressed for writing, so called from Pergamus, Asia Min-or, where they were invented. Used for deeds, and used for writs of summons in England previous to the Judicature act, 1875. wharton
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Pound-breach; also the name of an old English writ against one chargeable with pound-breach
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The state or condition of holding title to lands Jolutly by parceners or co-parceners, before a division of the joint estate.
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A joint heir; one who, with others, holds an estate in co-parcenary, (9- v
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In the law of real property parcel slgnifies a part or portion of land. As used of chattels, it signifies a small package or bundle. See State v. Jordan, 3G Fla. 1, 17 South. 742; Miller v. Burke, 6 Daly (N. Y.) 174; Johnson v. Sirret, 153 N. Y. 51, 46 N, B. 1085
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Lat. He is ready to verify. The Latin form for concluding a pleading with a verification, (q. v
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Inferior; subordinate. Tenant paravail signified the lowest tenant of land, being tbe tenant of a mesne lord. He was so called because he was supposed to make “avail” or profit of the land for an-other. Cowell; 2 Bl. Comm. CO
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ln the civil law. Notes or abstracts prefixed to titles of law, giving a summary of their contents. Cod. 1, 17, 1 12
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